Tom's has a new Op-Ed up at Defense News entitled Private Sector Must Lead Exit Strategy. The lead:

America's military, faced with a future of small wars and lengthy postconflict nation-building efforts, desperately seeks to understand the logical boundaries between where its work should end and that of the private sector should begin. Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis likes to say that "Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!" are your primary counterinsurgency tool, and he's right.

But what constitutes the fastest route to that goal? Historically, America's foreign aid approach has been to get economic activity brewing inside a country and then link it up to the global economy - a deliberately slow catch-up strategy that aims for a downstream connect-up.

Be sure to read the whole thing.